Brethren, let's turn to Isaiah
chapter 55. Isaiah chapter 55. And follow along with me here
in your Bibles. We're going to read Isaiah 55
verse 3. It begins, incline your ear. Now this is God speaking. He
says, incline your ear. Now, in order for any sinner
to be saved, we're going to have to incline our ear. It's our
responsibility to use the ears God has given us to hear. He said, incline your ear. Not
just to anybody. Not just to anyone. He says in
verse 3, incline your ear and come unto me. He said, we must
incline our ears to God. We must come unto God. Only God
can do the saving. We come to God through the ear,
we come to God through the heart, we come to God through the hearing
of the gospel, the good news that salvation is of the Lord.
And then he says here, hear, hear. Don't just incline your
ear. Don't just come to God, hear.
It means diligently hear. Diligently hear. Turn to the
Scriptures. Look the Word up. Hear what God
has to say. Listen to God. Hear God. We are
in a bad economy right now. How diligently do you look after
your finances? You diligently look after that
which matters most to you. You look after it diligently.
Well, God says here, Look after Him and incline your ear to Him
and hear Him more diligently than any other thing that's valuable
on this earth. He says, hear Him. He's life. He's life. He's given us everything
we have. whether it's just temporal things
or it's both temporal and spiritual. He's given us everything we have. Don't He deserve to be heard,
to at least hear what He has to say? This is what He says.
Here, look at these three simple, light, easy precepts. Nothing
difficult about this. He says, incline your ear, come
unto Me, and hear. And then He gives two promises.
Verse 3, He says, and your soul shall live. We're dead sinners. by nature. We must have God to
give us life. We must have God to draw us to
Christ. We must have God to give us ears
to hear Him in the Gospel. We must have that. And what He
is saying here is, those to whom He has given ears to hear, those
to whom He has given life, He says here, when you come to Him,
you are going to find solid everlasting, continual food for your soul. Your soul is going to live. You
are going to find food for your soul. And then, He says this
to us. He says, and I will make an everlasting
covenant with you. Has God given you this life?
Has He given you spiritual life? How do I know that if He's given
me spiritual life? Have you found yourself having
an interest in the Gospel? Have you found yourself having
some desire that wasn't there before to hear what God has to
say? It may just be He's given you
life. It may be. Now look here. Here's this second
promise, verse 3. He says, I'll make an everlasting
covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David. God promises
to bind himself to sinners like us. He promises to bind himself
in covenant promise to sinners like us. God who can't lie promises
this. Now this proves our depravity
right here. This proves that sinners are
sinners by nature and unable, unwilling to come to God. Because
here's God. This is God. This is God who
cannot lie. And He's saying to us, you come
to Me and you hear and your soul shall live and I'll make an everlasting
covenant with you. I'll make sure you have soul,
food for your soul the rest of your days all the way into eternity. And I'll make this everlasting
covenant with you. And yet, sinners will not incline
their ear, much less come to God, much less hear what God
says. Anybody that had a right mind, anybody that had a life
in him and had a right mind would do as God says immediately if
he heard that. Wouldn't he? Come to God and
live and have this everlasting covenant made. That's what I
want to talk about, God's everlasting covenant. And then we'll spend
the second hour on the subject of sheer mercies. Let's look
here now. Is there anybody interested in
God's everlasting covenant? There are two covenants. This
is what I want us to see today. There's two covenants. There's
the everlasting covenant and there's the covenant of works.
These are the two covenants. The everlasting covenant of grace
and the covenant of works. Every sinner in this world, in
the day of judgment, is going to stand under one of these two
covenants. And we're going to stand under
one of these two covenants in one of two heads. Either in Christ,
under the everlasting covenant of grace, whereby we'll be saved. Or we'll stand before God in
Adam under the everlasting, or under the covenant of works,
whereby we'll be damned. One of these two covenants. Now
first of all, let's begin where God begins. God begins with the
everlasting covenant. He began in eternity with the
everlasting covenant. The scripture sometimes refers
to the old covenant as the first covenant, as the first testament.
But the truth of the matter is the everlasting covenant came
first. It was in eternity. That's what
this word everlasting means. It's eternal. It's an eternal
covenant. It's founded in the everlasting
love of God that doesn't change. It's ordered in all things according
to the eternal purposes of God. You know, whenever we start a
business or something that's very important, we don't just
run into it and say, well, let's just see how things go. Let's
just see if everything works out all right. We sit down and
we plan it. We sit down and we determine
what we're going to do beforehand before we go into it. And that's
what God does. God, before the foundation of
the world, before He made a grain of sand, God determined the end
from the beginning. He determined exactly what He
would do. He purposed to bring glory and honor to His name.
That was His number one. Salvation is not about us, first
and foremost. It's about bringing glory and
honor to God's name. He determined to give all preeminence
to His Son. And He purposed to do so by saving
His people from our sins. This is what God determined before
the world was made. And so, the contracting parties
in this everlasting covenant is God the Father, God the Son,
and God the Holy Spirit. The three persons in the Trinity.
This is going to be, if God will make you hear this, this is such
good news. Isn't it, believer? You know
this is so good news. because God didn't leave any
part of this covenant in our hands. God entered the covenant
with Himself. God the Father chose His Son
to be the Christ. He chose Him from eternity. We looked at this Thursday night,
but look back at Isaiah 42. This is what God said to His
Son in eternity. He said, verse 1, Behold, My
servant whom I uphold, mine elect, in whom my soul delighteth. I have put my spirit upon him,
he shall bring forth judgment to my people scattered all over
the world. He says in verse 4, he shall
not fail. He shall not fail. He says there
in verse 21, the Lord is well pleased for his righteousness
sake, he will magnify the law, he will make it honorable. God
the Father required His Son to accomplish all this by doing
all things necessary. to number one, glorify God, to
declare His righteousness. That's what Christ came to do,
to declare God is righteous and to declare how He's righteous.
He came to magnify and honor God's law. God the Father entered
into covenant agreement with His Son and charged Him to magnify
and honor His law. He charged Him to make God just
and the justifier, to declare Him just and the justifier of
His people. He charged Him to purge the sin
of His people and to make us to righteousness of God in Him.
He charged His Son to save the church in a way that's consistent
with God's holy character, with all His glory and with His holy
law. That's what He did. And God the
Father made a promise to His Son. He promised that His Spirit
would be upon Him when He walked this earth as a man. He promised
that He would protect him. He would cover him. He would
protect him because Christ walked this earth depending upon the
Father. He promised that He would raise him from the dead when
the work was finished. He would give him the glory that
Christ had with Him before the world began. He promised that
He would raise him up and He would give the honor of revealing
Himself in His children. He promised Him He would see
all His seed, all His children brought to faith and life and
everlasting glory in Him. And here's the solemn word that
God said to His Son when He entered in covenant with His Son. Look
at verse 5. He said, Isaiah 42, 5. I'm sorry. Isaiah 42, 5. Thus saith God the Lord. He's
swearing by His name here. He says, He that created the
heavens and stretched them out. He that spread forth the earth
and that which cometh out of it. He that giveth breath unto
the people upon it and spirit to them that walk therein. I
the Lord have called thee in righteousness. He keeps saying
this. I the Lord have done this. I
the Lord have done this. And I'll hold thine hand, and
I'll keep thee, and I'll give thee for a covenant of the people
for a light of the Gentiles, to open the blind eyes, to bring
out the prisoners from the prison and them that sit in darkness
out of the prison house. I'm the Lord. That is my name. And
my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to graven image.
And the promise was made to Christ Jesus, the Son of God, before
the foundation of the world. He's the head of all whom He
represents. Christ is. God sent Him forth
to do the work for His people. Now that's good news, brethren.
But He's not the only one in this covenant. God the Father,
God the Son is as well. God the Son consented to the
will and requirement of the Father. He agreed to do this work. He
agreed to come at the time appointed. He agreed to be made of a woman
because His children were flesh and blood. He agreed to be made
under the law because His people were under the law. He agreed
to walk this earth fulfilling all righteousness for His people
because His people couldn't do it. He agreed to go to the cross
to be made sin for His people because His people were sin.
He agreed to take their sin, to have their sin laid on Him.
He agreed to lay down His... He agreed to be made a curse
because His children were a curse, under the law, cursed under the
law. He agreed to die the death, which is the wages of sin. He
agreed to do that in place of His people. He agreed to do this
for His people. This is what Christ agreed. He
agreed that He would lose not one that the Father gave to Him,
but He would save every one of them. This is what Christ agreed
to. He agreed to fulfill every stipulation
of this covenant. Every stipulation of it. He said,
I came down from heaven not to do mine own will, but the will
of Him that sent me. That's what he was talking about
when he said that. The everlasting covenant. And this is how he
was made a priest. Not without an oath. God said,
I the Lord, I the Lord, I the Lord. It was not without an oath.
The Lord has sworn and said, Thou art a priest forever after
the order of Melchizedek. And the Scripture says, by so
much was Jesus made a surety of a better testament. And there
he's referring to that old covenant. I'm going to get to that in a
minute. But a better testament, a better covenant. He's obtained
a more excellent ministry, more excellent than Moses had, more
excellent than what Adam was under. How much also he's the
mediator of a better covenant, better than the old covenant,
better than that covenant God made with Adam. And it's established
upon better promises. We're going to look at those
promises in the next time. Better promises. And by virtue
of Christ's perfect obedience, because He fulfilled every word
of His promise to God when He walked this earth, by virtue
of His obedience unto the death of the cross, there's not anything
left for the believer to do. Nothing. It's done. Everything
that God requires is done. For this cause, He's the mediator
of the New Testament. of the New Testament, that by
means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were
under the First Testament, they which are called might receive
the promise of eternal inheritance. I love it. It doesn't say they
that are called might receive some additional things that they
got to do. No, no. That those that are called might
receive the promise of eternal inheritance because it's all
done. It's all done. Well, how are we going to be
called? Because God the Holy Spirit entered into this covenant
as well. God the Holy Spirit agreed in covenant with the Father
and the Son to glorify the Lord Jesus Christ. The Spirit came
down upon Him like a dove and lit upon Him. And God said, this
is my Son in whom I am well pleased. He agreed at the intercession
of Christ, through God the Father, that when He was called for,
He would come forth and enter into His child and give Him life,
regenerate Him. And He agreed that He would guide
them into all truth. Christ said when the Spirits
come, He won't speak of Himself, He'll speak of Me. And He'll
guide you into all truth. When He's come, Christ said He's
going to convince the world of sin, because they believe not
on Me. Of righteousness, because I go to my Father. And of judgment,
because the Prince of this world is judged. He said that's what
he's going to do. And he entered into covenant
to abide in his people, to stay in his people, to keep his people,
to protect his people, to keep us from the evil, and to raise
us from the dead. when we die into God's presence,
and to raise our bodies, and to give us glory with Christ
in the end. This was the Spirit's work. That's
why, brethren, because it's God the Father, God the Son, and
God the Holy Spirit who performs every aspect of this everlasting
covenant, that's why they're called sure mercies. That's why
it's called an everlasting covenant. It can't change. It can't be
broken. It can't be altered in any way. It's ordered in all things in
sheer because the triune God fulfills everything in it. Now,
who was this covenant made for? Who did God make this covenant
for? He made it for people that shall believe on the Lord Jesus
Christ. The only way you know who this
covenant was made for is God calls them. He calls them and
they believe the Lord. That's who it was made for. Every
one of them shall be called and they shall all believe on the
Lord. That's who He made this covenant for. That's exactly
who He made it for. Now you just think about it.
I want you to think. This might be something amazing
right here. Maybe you came here and you didn't
come here for really any good reason. You came here for some
vain reason. But wouldn't it be amazing if
today God calls you and lets you know this good news that
this covenant was made with you before the foundation of the
world? Wouldn't that be amazing? He's done that for some of us
here. He did that for me one time. He called me and told me.
He still calls me and tells me that. He's continually calling
us through the Gospel. So He tells us this, incline
your ear and come unto God and hear. And here, now secondly,
there's another covenant. There's another covenant called
the covenant of works. In the beginning of time, when
God created man, in the garden, God gave Adam a law. He put him under a covenant of
works in the garden. He's the second representative,
Adam. And he put him under, he represented all that would come
from him. All that would be born of him.
And he is a whole human race. And Adam had one law in the garden,
and this was a covenant of works, one work put in the hand of a
man. And this was what he said, the Lord God commanded the man
saying, of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat.
And he said, but of the tree of the knowledge of good and
evil thou shalt not eat it, for in the day you eat that you will
die. Now, he had one law. One law. Now you see, this is
a covenant of works. That means it's a conditional
covenant. That means there's a part in
man's hand. God gave a part to Adam. He said,
if you do, if you do, if you obey this law, God said, then
I will see to it you live. You live. If you do, if you keep
this commandment, you shall live. That's what God told him. But
the day you eat it, you shall die. Now do you see the difference
in these two covenants? The everlasting covenant says
believe and you'll have food provided for your soul all your
days and God will make with you an everlasting covenant, the
sure mercies of David. But the covenant of works says
you have to keep the law in order for God to give you life and
to keep his part of the covenant with you. That's what the covenant
of works says. Well, what happened? Adam failed.
He failed to keep that covenant. He ate, he broke the law, and
he died. And when he failed, we all failed.
When he died, we all died because Adam represented every person
that would come from Adam. And we died Dying we die because
His seed was passed on to His child, to His child, to His child,
to His child, right on down to the day you were conceived in
your mother's womb. And so we came forth sinners. We came forth
conceived in sin. We came forth sinning. We came
forth dead. Legally condemned under God's
law and sinners by our own choice and practice. Romans 5.12. Go
there with me. I want you to see it. I want
you to put your eye on this. Romans 5.12. Romans 5.12. The Lord said now,
He said, incline your ear, come unto me and hear. So let's do
it. Let's go. Let's see what God said. Romans
5.12. Wherefore as by one man sin entered
the world. and death by sin. And so death
passed upon all men, for that all have sinned. Ever man failed
to keep the covenant of works when we sinned in Adam. We failed
right there. Now sadly, most religious folks
are still trying to come to God by covenant of works. They won't
say that because they know to say salvation is by grace. Most
won't say they're trying to come by covenant of works. But by
thinking that they have to keep the law and thinking they can
keep the law of Moses, they're mixing law and grace. And that's
salvation by works. That's not salvation by grace.
They really, if they need Christ at all, most people, and this
is so sad, but most people think they need Christ to make up where
they fail. But they just need Him to help
out. They don't need Him to do it all. They just need Him to
help out. That's salvation by works. That's not salvation by
grace. That's being under a covenant of works. Now, somebody might
ask this. Look at Galatians 3. I'm sorry,
Romans 3. Somebody might ask this. Well,
God gave a law at Mount Sinai. What about that? What about that
law that He gave at Mount Sinai? That was a covenant of works
too. But it was for a different reason that He gave that law.
The rich young ruler wanted to come to God by that law. Remember,
he came, he said, what must I do that I might have eternal life?
And the Lord said, keep the commandments. And he said, which ones? He said,
thou shalt not steal, thou shalt not commit murder, thou shalt
not commit adultery. He said, hold it. Now, hear what
the Lord said. He said, keep the commandments.
He didn't say, give it the old college try. He said, keep the
commandments. He didn't say, do your best even
though you mess up every now and then. He said, keep the commandments. Keep the commandments. What does
it mean to keep the commandments? It means there can be no sin
in us whatsoever. Not by conception. No sin in our heart. No sin in
our thoughts. No sin in our words. No sin in
our deeds. Not one deviation from the law
of God. Now, here's the thing. When God
gave that law at Mount Sinai, every sinner had already died
in Adam. We'd all died in Adam. And every
sinner having died in Adam was already guilty of breaking the
law of God. Every one of us were. And we
were sinners in our hearts. So when God gave that law at
Mount Sinai, there was no possible way any sinner on this earth
at any point in history of time would ever keep that law. Not
a possibility. Well, then why did God give the
law? There must have been another reason that God gave the law
then. There was another reason He gave the law. Look at Romans
3, in verse 19. Romans 3, 19. We know that what things whoever
the law says, it says to them who are under the law that every
mouth may be stopped and all the world may become guilty before
God. Therefore, by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh
be justified in its sight, for by the law is the knowledge of
sin. That's why God gave it to shut our mouths, to declare us
guilty, that we might know we're sinners. Look at Romans 5 and
verse 20. Romans 5 and verse 20. He says
moreover the law entered that the offense might abound. That's
why he gave it. Look at Romans 7, verse 7. What
shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. No, I had not known sin, but
by the law. For I had not known lust, except
the law had said, Thou shalt not covet. And he says, For sin,
taken occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me. Wherefore the law is holy, and
the commandment is holy, and just, and good. Was then that
which is good made deaf unto me? God forbid, but sin, that
it might appear sin, working death in me, by that which is
good, that sin by the commandment might become exceedingly sinful. You see, Paul said in there,
he said, I had the Ten Commandments, I had the whole law, I had the
whole ceremonial law. And he said, but sin in me made
me think I was keeping that law. And it took God using that law
to give me eyes to see that I never had kept it. I've been breaking
it the whole time and calling it righteousness. And God used
the law to show me I'm a sinner. And when He did that, everything
I thought was righteousness and life died. Died completely. Now that's the reason God gave
the law at Mount Sinai. He gave it to declare men guilty. That's the reason He gave it.
Now, go to Galatians chapter 3. Well, if God made the everlasting
covenant in eternity, and He made all these promises to Christ
Jesus the Lord, that's who He made these promises to, to Christ. What happened when the law entered
and we died? What happened in the garden when
that covenant of works entered and we died in Adam? What happened
to His people when that happened? Well, we died. We died, we died
in Adam, and no doubt about that. But before God, this is the good
news. Even though we sinned in Adam,
and even though we were conceived in sin when we were born, before
God, in Christ, nothing changed. Nothing changed. The everlasting
covenant God had made with Christ to save His people did not change
for His people. It didn't change. It didn't change. And here's the good news about
it. God made this covenant first with Christ. So Christ stood
as the surety of His people from the foundation of the world.
The one who would do this, the one that there's no possibility
He wouldn't do this, so the works were finished from before the
foundation of the world. And then God chose us this. He
called Abraham, and He used Abraham as the father of the faithful.
He called Abraham 430 years before He ever gave the law at Mount
Sinai. And He made this everlasting covenant in Abraham's heart and
gave him these sure mercies, these sure promises, just like
He did David. He gave them to Abraham. And
then 430 years later, He gave the law at Mount Sinai. Did that
change anything God had promised to Abraham at all? Look here,
Galatians 3.15, Brethren, I speak after the manner of men. He said,
I'm going to give you an earthly illustration here now. Though
it be but a man's covenant, though it's just a man, you and I make
an agreement with each other, yet if it be confirmed, it's
all confirmed by both of us, no man disannulleth or addeth
thereto. Nobody can come along and bring
in another contract and change what you and I have agreed on.
It's done. It's settled. It's confirmed.
Right? That's just between men. Alright, look here. Now, to Abraham
and his seed were the promises made. If you want to put that
in order, before God, it would be this. To his seed and then
to Abraham were the promises made. Why do you say that? Look.
He saith not into seeds as of many, he's not talking about
Abraham's children, but as of one seed, to thy seed, which
is Christ. You see, God made this promise
to Christ in eternity in that everlasting covenant. And then
He came forth in time and He made this covenant in Abraham's
heart. He said, Christ is your surety. Everything is done, required
to make you accepted of God. There's nothing else that needs
to be done. Here's my promises of my sure mercies to you. That's
what He said to Abraham. Well, alright, now look at verse
17. This I say, that the covenant that was confirmed before of
God in Christ, the law which was 430 years after. Here you have the two covenants.
You've got the first covenant. It was confirmed before by God
to Abraham in Christ Jesus. The everlasting covenant of grace.
And he says, now here comes the covenant of works 430 years later
on Mount Sinai. He says this, can it disannul
that first covenant, that everlasting covenant? That it should make
the promise of none effect? For if the inheritance be of
the law, it's no more of promise. It can't disannul it. It can't
make it of no effect. Because if the inheritance be
of the law, if what God gives to His people be of the law,
it is no more of promise. God won't get all the glory.
Man don't get glory because he did the works to obtain it. He
says, If the inheritance be of the law, it's no more of promise,
but God gave it to Abraham by promise. Wherefore then serveth
the law? Don't you want to know this answer?
Wherefore then serveth the law? Why did that law enter then?
Here we have it again. It was added because of transgression. Till the seed should come to
whom the promise was made. Who was that seed? Christ. Till
Christ should come to whom the promise was made. Who else was
that seed? Abraham. He made it to Abraham. Till that
seed that shall be born again by God and brought to faith in
Christ should come forth. He says this, look down at verse
21. Is the law then against the promises
of God? It seems like the covenant of
works is against the everlasting covenant of grace. God forbid. For if there had been a law given
which could have given life, if there had been a law, a covenant
of works made that could have given us life, verily righteousness
should have been by the law. We'd have had life by the law.
But the scripture hath concluded all under sin. that the promise by the faithfulness,
by the doing and dying of the Lord Jesus Christ might be given
to them that believe on Christ. You see, we get this inheritance
through faith in Christ who has faithfully fulfilled every stipulation.
Look, verse 23. But before faith came, here's
some of you sitting here now. Faith hadn't come to you yet.
Maybe God made this covenant for you. Maybe he's going to
give you faith today. But here's what he said, before
faith came, we were kept under the law. We're under the curse. Shut up until the faith which
should afterwards be revealed. Wherefore, the law was our schoolmaster. The law is a teacher. to bring
us unto Christ. Now the law is not a teacher
by itself. I said this to you a long time ago. The law can't
do anything by itself because we got no spiritual discernment
to hear what the law is saying. But the law in the hand of God,
speaking to our new heart, He teaches us by that law what this
law is saying. And that law is a schoolmaster
to bring us to Christ that we might be justified by faith. That's why God gave the law.
But after that faith is come, we're no longer under a schoolmaster.
We're no longer under the law anymore. After that faith is
given by God and He's made you to see the faithfulness of Christ,
we're not under the law anymore. Not under the law anymore. You'll
find that written in the Scriptures several times. The believer is
not under the law. And I've never yet heard a legal
preacher preach on it where he didn't say, now that don't mean
you're not under the law. Well, what does it mean then?
It says you're not under the law. That's what God said. He
says, well, verse 27. As many of you as have been baptized
into Christ... No, wait. Verse 26. For you who
believe are all the children of God by faith in Christ. For as many of you as have been
baptized into Christ, have put on Christ, there's neither Jew
nor Greek, There's neither bond nor free. There's neither male
nor female. You're all one in Christ Jesus. And if you be Christ, then you're
Abraham's seed. You're the true Israel of God.
And you're heirs of God according to the promise. Now let me end
with this. I want you to be sure to get
what we saw here and there. First of all, the everlasting
covenant was made in eternity. The triune God entered into agreement
to fulfill every stipulation of that covenant. And he has,
and he is, and he shall. God never gave the covenant of
works in the garden. And when we sinned in Adam, that
was not a surprise to God because God had already made that covenant
with Christ. Why would He have set up a Savior
before the world was made if He didn't know there was going
to be sinners? He already knew it. People will say, well, how
dare you? Wouldn't you rather God had been
in control in the garden than Satan just come in on his own
and usurp God's dominion and authority? I would. God was in
full control of everything because this is how God would bring glory
to His name. And then God gave that law at Mount Sinai not for
sinners to come to God in the law. He gave it to declare us
sinners. He gave it to drive us to Christ
that we might be justified by the faithfulness of Christ through
faith in Christ. That's why He gave it. And once
we're brought to faith in Christ, we're no longer under that law
anymore. The law has served its purpose. We're not under it anymore.
Christ has redeemed us from the law and believers are under the
everlasting covenant of grace. It's so clear. You can't be under
two covenants at one time. God brings you out of that covenant
of works and brings you under the covenant of grace. Now, and
here's the first question now to all that. Here's the first
question. Has God taken the law and shown you your sin? Has God taken the law? and showed
you, shut your mouth, showed you you're guilty, and showed
you you cannot come to God in the law. No use pretending anymore,
no use acting like you fulfilled some aspect of the law, no use
pretending you're good, you're not good. Neither am I. Nobody
in here is good. Has He made you see that? And
here's the second question. Has He made you see that Christ
Jesus has fulfilled all righteousness for His people? Has He made you
see He is the righteousness of people? Has He made you see you
need Christ as your righteousness? This is what God says. This is
what He says. Incline your ear. Come unto Me
here. It's not a one-time thing. Unto
whom cometh. Once you start coming to Christ,
you never stop coming to Christ. You never stop hearing Him. Come
unto Me, here, and your soul shall live. He'll continually
feed you forever. And I'll make with you an everlasting
covenant, even the sure mercies of David. Nothing dependent on
you. God doing everything. Why would
that make somebody angry? Why would that make somebody
say, no, I don't want any part with that? God doing it all? God saving you? God getting all
the glory? There it is. God getting all
the glory. There it is. That's why it makes
folks angry. How dare God say I'm a sinner? How dare God take all the glory?
He's going to take it all. And we're going to find out we're
sinners one day, one way or the other. Either in grace or in
judgment. We're going to find it out. Take
a short break. We're going to come back and
we're going to see what are these sure mercies.